News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
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Latest events. . .
International Safe Abortion Day: Equality of access and the telemedical imperative – book launch event, Durham Law School and online
Life after Lockdown: Moving forwards in the family courts, online from Support through Court
Supporting the Next Generation: ECR journal publishing Q&A, online from Global Policy Next Generation
Book Discussion: From the Colonial to the Contemporary: Images, iconography, memories, and performances of law in India’s High Courts, online from Jawaharlal Nehru University
Book Symposium: Metaphors of Confinement – The prison in fact, fiction and fantasy, online from QMUL
Immigration Law and Policy: Border control and migrant deaths, online from Humboldt University, Berlin
Dr Lawrence McNamara: Researching for change – having an impact on policy and practice, online workshop from Humboldt University, Berlin
Menstruation: Sharing experiences from the global north and south, British Academy, London and online
SLSA events and SLSA co-sponsored events
LSA Global Meeting 2022, hybrid conference, online and Lisbon, Portugal: submissions now open NEW
Doing Socio-Legal Research in a Pandemic: How, why, when, where?, online SLSA one-day conference
Mental Capacity in the Context of Sexual Relationships and Intimacy, Keele University
2021
September
Virtual RCSL Conference
RCSL dates: 20–21 September 2021
WG Law and Popular Culture date: 22 September 2021
Venue: both will be held virtually
See RCSL website for details of the conference, which is free to attend but requires registration.
Doing Socio-Legal Research in a Pandemic: How, why, when, where?
Date: 21 September 2021
Venue: online SLSA one-day conference
Organisers: Dr Flora Renz and Dr Clare Williams. Please see announcement for full details. This is an SLSA Seminar Competition event.
Book Discussion: From the Colonial to the Contemporary: Images, iconography, memories, and performances of law in India’s High Courts
Date: 24 September 2021
Venue: online from Jawaharlal Nehru University
This event will discuss Rahela Khorakiwala's book. See announcement for full details.
International Safe Abortion Day: Equality of access and the telemedical imperative – book launch event
Date: 28 September 2021
Venue: Durham Law School and online
See website for details and registration.
Dr Lawrence McNamara: Researching for change – having an impact on policy and practice
Date: 30 September 2021
Venue: online workshop from Humboldt University, Berlin
This event is part of the conference Immigration Law and Policy, Border Control and Migrant Deaths (see listing below) but will be of interest to a wider audience. Everyone is welcome to attend. See announcement for details.
Immigration Law and Policy, Border Control and Migrant Deaths
Dates: 30 September–1 October 2021
Venue: online from Humbold University, Centre for British Studies, Berlin
Please see website and programme for details.
October
Financial Crime: Challenges and responses
Date: October 2021 tbc
Venue: PGR/ECR online conference hosted by IALS
Please see announcement for details.
Menstruation: Sharing experiences from the global north and south
Dates: 4–6 October 2021
Venue: British Academy, London and online
See website for details of this free three-day event.
Supporting the Next Generation: ECR journal publishing Q&A
Date: 6 October 2021
Venue: online from Global Policy Next Generation
See website for details of this free event.
Book Symposium: Metaphors of Confinement – The prison in fact, fiction and fantasy
Date: 6 October 2021
Venue: online from QMUL, School of Law
See website for details of this free event.
JUSTICE Human Rights Conference 2021
Dates: 11–12 October 2021
Venue: online
Please see website for details and registration.
Are We Owned? A multidisciplinary and comparative conversation on intellectual property in the algorithmic society
Date: 8 October 2021
Venue: University of Stirling
Please see website for details of the Modern Law Review-funded in-person event.
Life after Lockdown: Moving forwards in the family courts
Date: 12 October 2021
Venue: online from Support through Court
Keynote speaker: Justice Baker
See website for details.
November
Questions of Accountability: Prerogatives, power and politics
Dates: 1–5 November 2021
Venue: online exhibition hosted by the University of Worcester and University of Sheffield
See announcement for full details of keynote speakers, keynote panels and the call for papers.
British Academy UK-Poland Knowledge Frontiers Symposium on ‘Just Transitions’
Dates: between 23 November and 9 December 2021
Venue: virtual symposium from Warsaw
See anouncement for details.
SULC Legal Ethics / Ethics in Law Conference
Dates: 29–30 November 2021
Venue: online from Stellenbosch University Law Clinic, South Africa
See website for full details.
2022
April
Climate Change and the Rule of Law Conference: call for papers from ECRs
Dates: 31 March–1 April 2022
Venue: UCL Centre for Law and the Environment, University College London
Please see announcement for further details. Closing date: 31 August 2021.
May
Mental Capacity in the Context of Sexual Relationships and Intimacy
Date: 23 May 2022
Venue: Keele Hall, Keele University
Further details will be announced in due course. This is an SLSA-sponsored event under our Seminar Scheme.
July
LSA Global Meeting 2022, hybrid conference, online and Lisbon, Portugal: submissions now open NEW
Dates: 13–16 July 2022
Venue: ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Theme: 'Rage, Reckoning, & Remedy'
Please visit website for details. Closing date for submission of abstracts: 10 November 2021. The SLSA is a co-sponsor of this event.
2023
May
23rd International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law – IRSL 2023: call for papers
Dates: 24–27 May 2023
Venue: hosted online by Pontificia Università Antonianum, Roma, Italy
Theme: Global Semiotics and Everyday Legal Claims – Intercultural Use of Law, Interreligious Dialogue and Translation Ethics
Please note that this event was originally scheduled to take place in May 2021. See announcement for full details. Closing date: 6 January 2023.